{"id":20559,"date":"2016-05-14T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:33:49","slug":"why-we-are-so-bad-at-solving-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20559","title":{"rendered":"Why We Are So Bad at Solving Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a><\/center>Before you raise your voice, please allow me to say that I do indeed know this starts to feel like a set of Russian dolls, and this is a re-run of a re-run. It\u2019s just, I didn\u2019t start it. Got a mail yesterday from the people at OpEdNews.com asking if I would allow them to repost something I wrote over a year ago. And since I\u2019m notoriously bad at remembering anything I wrote even just 24 hours ago, when I read what they wanted to republish, it was almost like a whole new world opened up for me. And I kind of liked it.<\/p>\n

And only then I saw that what they had read, which was published May 2, 2015 as\u00a0Quote Of The Year. And The Next. And The One After<\/a>, was actually largely a rerun of a January 1 2013 article. But, you know, when someone tells you\u00a0\u201cYour essay is excellent. And as one who has been closely attuned to such matters for nearly 50 years I can say with confidence that your theme is fresh and current as any other we should be reading and heeding today. In fact, I think it is timeless.\u201d<\/i>, A) you feel young, and B) you say: who am I to disagree with that?<\/p>\n

So this today went up at OpEdNews.com, and is now once again up at The Automatic Earth as well. Because I do still think it\u2019s relevant and important to acknowledge that\u00a0\u201cwe are going to evolve through crisis, not through proactive change.\u201d<\/i>, and that we are nowhere near realizing how true that is, and how much that denial, unfortunately, guides our existence. We\u2019re either not even smart monkeys, or we\u2019re that at best. We need a lot more self-reflection than we are getting, or we\u2019re going down. And my bet, much as it pains me, is on door no. 2. From May 5, 2015:<\/p>\n

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